Archive for October 24th, 2010

Ministers are planning a massive sell-off of Britain’s Government-owned forests as they seek to save billions of pounds to help cut the deficit, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. By Patrick Hennessy and Rebecca Lefort TelegraphUK 23 Oct 2010 Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, is expected to announce plans within days to dispose of about... »

PART 23 — Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald the Dawn of Techno-Dimensional Spiritual Warfare RaidersNewsNetwork.com Sunday, October 24, 2010 Can a microscopic tag be implanted in a person’s body to track his every movement? There’s actual discussion about that. You will rule on that—mark my... »

By David Deming AmericanThinker.com October 24, 2010 There is a whiff of anarchy in the air this morning. As I sit here writing, a conservative victory in the midterm elections looms. But I find no reason to be optimistic. The midterm elections will solve nothing. The plain fact is that conservatives have lost the... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 10/24/2010 If there is one thing that everyone should watch to understand just why every policy attempt to fix the ongoing depression is doomed, it is the following short clip from Niall Ferguson in which he deconstructs the primary fatal flaw of Keynesianism. Ferguson explains why those who push for... »

WashingtonsBlog.com Saturday, October 23, 2010 Former hedge fund manager Shah Gilani notes: In creating MERS, these institutions actually changed the land-title system that this country – for much of its history – has relied upon to determine legal ownership status of land titleholders. Not only did the lenders sidestep (read that to mean avoid)... »

By Agence France-Presse RawStory.com Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 G20 finance ministers Saturday agreed tougher rules for big financial firms blamed for the global economic crisis as they tackled the problem of companies deemed “too big to fail”. After a two-day meeting in South Korea, G20 ministers and central bankers said in a statement that... »

By Thomas R. Horn October 24, 2010 NewsWithViews.com THE HELL SCENARIO WILL BE NOTHING TO GRIN ABOUT Synthetic biologists forecast that as computer code is written to create software to augment human capabilities, so too genetic code will be written to create life forms to augment civilization. —Jerome C. Glenn Homo sapiens, the first... »

By: Carrie Bay DSNews.com New data released this week shows that the nation’s largest banks are holding monstrous volumes of soured home loans. Not only has the housing crisis left major lenders knee-deep in an ocean of non-performers, but added exposure to early delinquencies means they could sink even deeper. According to Weiss, including... »

by Dov Zakheim Global Research October 23, 2010 It is widely believed that the massive $60 billion U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia is directed against Iran. After all, Israel did not object to the deal. As one analyst told China’s Xinhua News Agency, Jerusalem, of all places, was simply adhering to the ancient... »